Dr Irina Bancos is the Associate Professor of Medicine and works in the Pituitary-Adrenal-Gonadal subdivision of Endocrinology division at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.  She also serves as the Associate Program Director for the Endocrine Fellowship.  Dr Bancos received her M.D. from the Iuliu Hatieganu Medical University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Danbury Hospital in CT, USA and Endocrinology Fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. In addition, Dr Bancos completed a two-year research fellowship (Mayo Foundation Scholarship) at the University of Birmingham, UK where she received training in steroid profiling and adrenal disorders.  In 2015 she returned to Mayo Clinic, where her clinical and research interests include adrenal and pituitary tumors, pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma, primary aldosteronism, adrenal insufficiency, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Cushing syndrome, and mechanisms of steroid regulation of health and disease.  Between 2015 and 2018, Dr Bancos was the Principal Investigator and Leader of the Transform the Adrenal Practice team at Mayo Clinic. Dr Bancos serves as Adrenal Associate Editor with EJE. She has published more than 160 scientific articles and currently holds several grants in the field of adrenal disorders through NIDDK and NIA.